RNs - Interested in Critical Care?
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Phelps is a great place to start your Critical Care Nursing Career . . . Introduction to Critical Care Nursing for FT med/surg RNs beginning March 10, 2008.
Phelps Memorial Hospital Center has openings for full-time RNs. Med-Surg RNs will have an opportunity to train in Critical Care Nursing. Earn as you learn in our state-of- the-art Intensive Care Unit.
Call today to schedule your interview! (914) 366-3390
Qualifications
- Current licensure in NY State as a Registered Professional Nurse
- 2-5 years medical/surgical clinical experience
- Interest in professional growth in critical care nursing specialty
Requirements
- Successful interview with Critical Care nursing staff
- Purchase of textbooks for courses
- Commitment to all course work
Purpose:
The purpose is to prepare medical/surgical nurses to assume critical care positions with introductory knowledge, skills, and competency.
Objectives:
- Identify the Critical Care nursing process: Assessment, planning, implementation and re-evaluation of treatment outcomes
- Assimilate and prioritize information sources to take immediate and decisive patient-focused actions.
- Respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
- Respond to the unique needs of patients, families coping with unantici- pated treatment, quality of life, and end-of- life decisions.
- Implement management strategies applying latest knowledge in assessing and managing pain and sedation.
Classroom Instruction
Systems approach includes:
- Introduction to the Critical Care Nurse Role
- Assessment and Priority Setting
- Neurological
- Respiratory
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Orthopedic/ Musculoskeletal
- Wound Management
- Shock
- Sepsis Hematological
- Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Infectious Disease
In addition to the Introduction to Critical Care Nursing 4-hour didactic, the following courses will be incorporated into the 3-month orientation period:
ACLS complete course - 2 day
Arrhythmia course - 4 days
Basic Critical Care Course - 5 days
Skills lab sessions for hands-on experience of essential critical care nursing functions
Typical schedule for orientation period:
Mon 8-noon Didactic
12:45- 4 pm Skills lab**Tues 7am - 7:30 pm Clinical Shift
Wed 7am - 7:30 pm Clinical Shift
Thurs 7am - 7:30 pm Clinical Shift
Fri 8-noon Didactic
12:45- 4 pm Weekly Eval.**
** Skills lab and Weekly Evaluation to commence for 12 weeks.
Critical Care Nursing
Critical Care Nursing is the specialty within nursing that deals specifically with human responses to life threatening situations. Although a distinct specialty, Critical Care Nursing is inseparable from the profession of nursing as a whole. As members of the nursing profession, we hold the same commitment to protect, maintain, and restore health for our patients.
Nursing interventions focus on patient adaptation, restoration of health, and preservation of patients’ rights, including the right to refuse treatment and to die with dignity and comfort. The critical care nursing interventions require constant intensive multidisciplinary assessments, intervention and evaluation in order to restore stability, prevent complications, and achieve and maintain optimal responses to treatment.
Underlying the application of these interventions is a holistic approach that expresses human warmth and caring. This art in conjunction with the science of critical care nursing is essential to the interaction between the critical care nurse and the critically ill patient/family in attaining optimal outcomes.
Call today to schedule your interview! (914) 366-3390